Capitol Hill Probes PGA Tour-LIV Golf Merger Deal with Saudi Investment

The PGA Tour's deal with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and its LIV Golf league is drawing criticism from American lawmakers and officials, with antitrust experts calling for the Justice Department to consider suing to stop the agreement. Lawmakers are complaining that the PGA Tour is lurching into business with an arm of the Saudi state that it roundly condemned until last week. Political strategists are scrambling to shape perceptions of an agreement that was forged in secret and, upon its release, promptly criticized as a well-heeled exercise in hypocrisy and whitewashing.